Moldova Socioemotional Skills Assessment

World Bank

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: EDUCATION;    HUMAN CAPITAL;    SKILLS DEVELOPMENT;    SOCIO-EMOTIONAL SKILLS;   

RP-ID  :  AUS0001095

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Moldovan employers voice concerns thatworkers’ low levels of socioemotional capabilities, such aspoor work ethics, lack of motivation, and limitedproblem-solving skills, are among the major constraints forbusiness development and productivity. The World Bank’s 2013Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, the2016 Labor Market Forecast of Moldova, and a qualitativeinterview among private sector representatives in 2017suggest that employers face skills shortages, particularlyin areas of work ethics, motivation, and problem solving.The magnitude of skills shortages in Moldova is the highestin the Europe and Central Asia region. The Moldovan labormarket will benefit from an increased supply of employees,including new recruits, with a range of relevantsocioemotional as well as cognitive capabilities. Thisreport provides a first diagnostic of socioemotional skillsin Moldova to profile the skills composition of grade 9students, identify learning context measures that arestrongly associated with socioemotional skills, and clarifyoptions for policy makers and practitioners to fostersocioemotional skills. To this end, the MoldovanSocioemotional Skills Assessment was launched in April 2019.This assessment focused on grade 9 students to betterunderstand how much socioemotional skills students exitingthe end of the compulsory school cycle self-reported, andhow these skills were associated with learning inputs fromschools and families. This assessment was the first toevaluate a range of socioemotional skills among school-agechildren in Moldova, using measures that had been validatedinternationally. The measures were designed to capture fivebroad domains of socioemotional skills, including students’self-reported capacity to ‘work with others’, ‘care forothers’, ‘engage with others’, ‘explore new horizons’, and‘manage emotions. The assessment provided not only technicalvalidation of the measurement tools in Moldova but alsoinitial guidance for policies and practices to foster theseskills. The results suggest that such measurement tools canbe mobilized in Moldova in the future.